Mike -- Right now the composite classes work just fine, and nicely accommodate (at the form level) the non-standard logic we need. I'm more concerned about the future. We're just embarking on converting a large legacy system to VFP, and would hate to get somewhere down the road, find we need something slightly different, and have to go through a huge effort to get what we need and/or have some things handled one way & others in a different way in order to avoid a huge effort. That's the kind of thing we're hoping to get away from in moving to VFP -- and we're hoping that VMP will help us do that more quickly (and do it better) than we could do ourselves.

I really appreciate your input! Thanks -- Sue